ECONOMIC CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF STATE ALCOHOLISM SPENDING

该项目将开发一个国家选择支出水平的模型 酒精中毒治疗，并将检查该治疗对 通过联立方程组模型得出的健康结果 政治经济学理论。在这个模型中，公民偏好、经济 影响和政治结构同时决定了酒类税 水平和治疗支出水平。国家收入的影响 级别，联邦拨款，州命令的压力，州的 其他公共支出计划的预算义务，以及选民 所有的特征都将用来解释 国家治疗支出和平均税收水平。在第一阶段， 该系统将利用1986087个断面数据进行估算。在……里面 在项目第二阶段，将采用时间序列横断面设计 考虑到滞后和特定于州的影响。

This project will develop a model of state choice of spending levels for alcoholism treatment and will examine the effect of that treatment on health outcomes by means of a simultaneous equations model based on political economy theory. In this model, citizen preferences, economic influences, and political structure simultaneously determine alcohol tax levels and treatment spending levels. The influence of state income levels, federal grants, the pressure of state mandates, the state's budgetary obligations for other public spending programs, and voter characteristics all will be used to explain the substantial variation in state treatment spending and average tax levels. In Phase 1 of the project, this system will be estimated with 1986087 cross section data. In Phase 2 of the project, a time series cross section design will be used to take account of lags and state-specific effects.